Grant Writing

  • Advise nonprofit organizations, small businesses, and individual creatives on grant proposals, nonprofit startups, grant strategies, budgets, reporting, resources, and fine-tuning a proposal to secure funding.
  • Write and edit proposal summaries, Letter of Inquiries, budget narratives, business summaries, artist statements, biographies, and structure budgets.
  • Teach a 6-module continuing education class, ‘Grant writing for nonprofits and creatives, ‘ and weekend 12-hour intensive remote workshop, as well as 1:1 individual consultations for new grant writers, prospective grant writers, and development managers. 
  • 2-day online weekend course to learn the strategies of effective grant writing
  • Dates: September 12/13th 1pm-7pm MST
  • Who can register: Open to anybody
  • Targeted to creatives, new grant writers, and nonprofit organizations
  • Cost: $150 for the weekend course. Low-income rate* $99.

* Low income is defined as 30% of AMI according to HUD calculations or NET earnings of less than $2400/month with less than $30,000 in assets for an individual. Discounted rate granted upon proof of income [ SNAP card, Section 8 lease, CV, etc ]. Discount only applies to individual artists/creatives and not nonprofit administrators/staff or grant writers.

  •  Develop a strategy for selecting grants
  • Differentiate between funding sources
  • Learn how to prepare materials
  • Prepare effective work samples
  • Write summaries using AI assist for editing
  • Write and format effective budgets
  • Specific project proposal
  • Tailored artist statement/mission statement
  • Biographie(s), CV/resume
  • Work sample list + captions/metadata
  • A line-item formatted budget
  • A  reporting plan (outcomes + documentation)